"[The Saxons'] arrogance was
presently, as occasion presented itself, repressed they by great Arthur
king of the Britons, so that they were driven out of most of the island
and forced to serve. But when that same Arthur, after many victories which
he accomplished illustriously in British and Gaulish areas, finally called
from human endeavor, [the island] was again forcibly exposed to the
Saxons..."